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Project Terminal

NovaDev IDE — a developer-centric UI that feels like a high-end IDE, with real syntax highlighting, file explorer navigation, and a functional command-line interface.

Year
2026
Status
experimental
Built with
HTML

What it is

The live build presents itself as "NovaDev IDE" — a fake TypeScript project (nova-framework) opened in a browser-based editor: a file explorer tree, syntax-highlighted source panel with git-blame-style markers, and a working terminal panel showing language-server status, lint diagnostics and a git branch indicator. None of it is a real dev environment — it's a fully staged interface, built to see how convincingly a static build could imitate one.

Why it exists

The Lab is where I test whether an interface idea holds up before deciding it's worth a proper stack. Project Terminal is one of those — a static, self-contained build to see how much "IDE feel" is achievable with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript, no editor framework underneath it.